City of Dallas v. Leake

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This suit in trespass to try title was filed by Sarah H. Leake and others against the City of Dallas and Hart Investment Company, a corporation. Plaintiffs sued for title and possession of a strip of land 32 feet wide adjacent to a line where the west track of the Houston & Texas Central Railway formerly lay, which strip of land runs a distance of one city block between Elm Street and Pacific Avenue in Dallas, Texas. The city claims the land became part of a street known as North Central Avenue. As the interests of plaintiffs and Hart Investment Company proved not to be…